So I don't actually know that much about locations in New York besides what I've found off of google... I hope I'm not too far off..
Please love me or I will wilt like a flower :(
Hope you all like it! 3
Disclaimer: I don't own glee or fortydaysofdating
Day 4
Kurt had just thrown his bag on his desk and started on his work when his phone started ringing. He groaned at the thought of having to go all the way across the room to retrieve it from where it was charging. It had been a long day of gallery hopping in Chelsea, and he still had a lot of work to finish. Somehow, he forced himself to get up and pick up his phone. He automatically brightened with a grin when he saw that is was Sebastian. They hadn't talked all day and he was suddenly feeling elated.
"Sebastian! Hi!" Kurt coughed awkwardly, realizing how high and squealy he probably sounded before schooling his voice into a lower pitch. "Uh, I mean. Hey."
He could hear the other boy snickering over the line, but decided to let it slide just this once. He tucked the phone between his ear and shoulder as he continued to do his work.
"So I'm heading home from work soon and I need to pick up some groceries. Fancy joining me? You can bask in my glory while getting food. Pretty great deal if I say so myself," Sebastian joked.
"Wow, who could resist that? Food and I get to spend time with such a humble and modest being!"
"Don't use that tone with me, Princess!"
"I don't know what you're talking about, meerkat," Kurt said in the most innocent voice he could manage. Which sounded pretty innocent. He was a pretty amazing actor, after all.
"Anyways," Sebastian interrupted his thoughts of self-praise, "One of the rules of this project was that we have to see each other every day, which we have yet to do today."
Kurt sighed over-dramatically into the phone, "Well, I guess I have to then. I mean, I'm practically being forced to see your stupid face."
"You love my stupid face. So meet me at the Union Square Whole Foods later?"
"Whole Foods? What about West Side Market?" Kurt suggested. To be honest, he really just wanted to go to West Side Market because it was right on the bottom floor of his apartment. He would often go there to make important decisions, such as which chocolate to buy that wouldn't give him pear hips.
"But Whole Foods has my organic orange juice."
"Your what?"
"Nothing. But I think we both know Whole Foods is obviously better!"
"No!" Kurt protested, "That's definitely not true. West Side Market has a lot of fresh foods. Plus, it's cheaper than Whole Foods. I need to have money for other things besides food, you know?"
Sebastian whined petulantly, "Whole Foods is still better!"
"Well we obviously can't make a decision by ourselves. So what do we do?"
"Flip a coin?"
"Okay, let's do that."
"Hold on, I think I have a coin."
Kurt could hear what he assumed was Sebastian putting the phone down and rummaging through his wallet for a coin.
"Got it!" Sebastian declared triumphantly. "I'll even let you take your pick first."
"Heads…wait!" Kurt exclaimed, suddenly thinking of something.
"What?"
"We're on the phone! How will I know if you're being fair? You could totally just say it landed on tails so that we would have to go to Whole Foods?"
He could practically hear Sebastian rolling his eyes in the brief silence that followed. "Do you want me to get a witness or something?"
"Yes!"
"You're impossible," Sebastian was mumbling under his breath, but Kurt heard him call out away from the phone, "Hey, Nick! Can you help me with a thing? Just come here! It'll take like two seconds! I don't care if Jeff's waiting for you! Just for a second, c'mon!"
Kurt chuckled to himself as he heard Nick's grumbling as he finally complied.
"Kurt, you still there?"
"I am in deed," Kurt confirmed.
"Okay, Nick, when I flip this coin, say what it lands on, okay?"
There was a moment of silence and then a little ping as the coin landed on a table. Kurt waited with bated breath; this was the ultimate decision of whether he'd have to make an effort to leave the building.
"Heads!" Nick proclaimed.
"Laziness prevails!" Kurt crowed excitedly. He laughed as he heard Sebastian sighing exaggeratedly in the background.
"Fine, I guess I'll come over there then."
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"Hello, Sebastian! Lovely to see you here in this charming little market!" Kurt greeted him a little too brightly.
Sebastian rolled his eyes, "Whatever, they better have my orange juice!"
They walked in and each grabbed a basket. The store was actually quite small, though there were numerous shelves packed full of products crammed into the tiny space. The fruit aisle was first. Sebastian picked up two boxes of blueberries and some bananas while Kurt picked out a box of strawberries.
As they walked around, Sebastian accumulated a small hoard of junk food. This included cheddar puffs, pizza pockets, miniature corn muffins, Napolitaner wafers, and cereal. Lots of cereal.
"Why do you need so much cereal?" Kurt inquired, eyeing the four boxes in Sebastian's basket.
"To eat? What else do you do with cereal? Bathe in it?"
"How do you eat that much, though? What if you ate so much cereal that you just spontaneously combusted and exploded? And then on your tombstone it would say, Here lies Sebastian Smythe; he ate too much cereal and exploded."
"I'm from Ohio, what do you want from me? I like my grains!"
"You seem to have forgotten that I'm from Ohio, too, but you don't see me potentially putting myself at risk of exploding from cereal."
Sebastian gave him a half amused, half confused look. They continued on to the refrigerated sections of the store.
"I really hope they have my almond milk," Sebastian said, mostly to himself.
"Almond milk?"
"Yes. It's healthy and delicious."
He grinned in triumph when he found his almond milk and added it to his stack of what was mostly cereal. "Now I need my organic orange juice."
"Is this it?" Kurt asked, pointing through the glass door at a carton of juice.
"No, that's not the right brand. I'm looking for a certain one," Sebastian explained, "I'm not sure if they have it here. A lot of stores don't."
He told Kurt the brand so they could both look for it. A few minutes passed and neither of them had seen the brand of Sebastian's specific organic orange juice.
"Are you sure none of these other juices are okay? They're all organic. And made of oranges."
Sebastian shook his head. "No, I need this brand!"
Kurt giggled, "I never thought you would be so picky about your orange juice."
"Shut up," Sebastian muttered, bumping Kurt's shoulder with his own, "You're picky about literally everything else. So you have no room to talk."
"True," Kurt shrugged. At least he could admit his problem. He decided to check his messages while Sebastian continued his quest for his special orange juice.
"I found it!" Sebastian suddenly shouted triumphantly after a few more minutes, seemingly appearing out of thin air behind Kurt.
"AH!" Kurt squealed, his phone slipping from his grasp and clattering to the ground when Sebastian startled him into accidentally dropping it.
Sebastian sniggered at his reaction, but at least had the decency to pick up his fallen phone for him. Thankfully, the screen didn't crack.
"Is that Blaine Anderson? Why is he sending you random numbers?" Sebastian asked curiously. He'd seen what was open on Kurt's phone at the moment.
"Oh, it's nothing," Kurt chuckled awkwardly, "Well, I went on a date with him the night before we started our project and I told him about it and that we had a rule that we can't date other people. So…he's been sending me a countdown. Everyday…"
Sebastian raised his eyebrows at him. "A countdown?"
"Um, yeah. A countdown for the days left of the project…"
"Oh…"
"…Yeah…"
They were both silent for a beat. After all, was there a book about what to say when you're dating a guy for a forty-day project thing and the guy's ex boyfriend, who cheated on him and they broke up but had a thing and went on a few dates after that, was emailing the guy you're dating a countdown for your forty-day project to be over? Uh, yeah. Sebastian highly doubted it.
Kurt finally broke the silence. "So…should we go check out now?"
It took a second for Sebastian to snap out of his thoughts. "Oh yeah, right. Check out. We should do that. Because we have groceries. And we have to do that. Check out. Right. Good."
They each paid for their groceries and took the bags. Since Kurt's apartment was right above the market, they stood outside to say their goodbyes.
"So…this was fun," Kurt said.
"Yeah, it was," Sebastian smiled genuinely. It had been. Maybe it was a bit awkward with the thing about Blaine, but the rest had been fun. He learned a bit more about Kurt and his little quirks. He'd also realized that he hadn't felt the urge to talk to other guys since he'd started seeing Kurt regularly. As little as the time they'd spent together was, he still loved every moment. It was pretty great.